School's Phone Calls Get `F'

U.S. & Latin America - U.S. News to Note

July 1, 2001

SEATTLE -- It was worse than a dinnertime telemarketer: "Your student has failed one or more core classes this year," a recorded voice told hundreds of parents of Edmonds-Woodway High School students last week. "We strongly recommend that your student enroll in summer school to make up the lost credit." The scoldings that undoubtedly resulted were, as it turns out, almost all for naught: Most of the 500 or so phone calls went to parents whose kids had not failed, school officials said.